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PRUITT CARRIES A TORCH FOR ORWELL
If you wanted to know the most perfectly Orwellian incarnation of the Trump administration’s attack on truth, logic, and reality, its white-is-black inversions, try Scott Pruitt’s redefinition of environmentalism as the determination to plunder America’s natural resources. Interviewed by James … Continue reading
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TRUMP + GOP vs. OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
The FBI foils a terrorist plot in San Francisco, while Trump and the GOP look the other way because they are too busy tarring the organization to shield Trump from the rule of law. We are in the midst of … Continue reading
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COME INTO MY PARLOUR, SAID McCONNELL TO THE DEMS
You thought you’d heard everything. Mitch McConnell, the man who stole a Supreme Court seat, who demonstrates a complete lack of respect for constitutional norms and minority party rights, is now puling about bipartisanship. David Atkins at Washington Monthly urges … Continue reading
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FASCIST LOCKSTEP AT FOX “NEWS”
“Heather” at Crooksandliars.com nails the way that when Fox Business purported-journalist personality Trish Regan had the nerve to actually acknowledge the reality of the GOP tax heist, some behind-the-scenes woodshed-travel occurred, and the newly-pummeled Regan emerged from solitary with a … Continue reading
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THE TYPICAL TRUMP SHELL GAME
U.N. Ambassador [?–how the hell did that happen?] Nikki Haley ballyhoos crippling cuts to the U.N. budget, giving the U.S. unilateralship game away. Trump is on a kamikaze mission to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world–and he … Continue reading
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ADDLED ORRIN HATCH
Unbelievably, this power-crazed, anti-Utah, anti-USA wheeze wants to run for another Senate term, and yet he is so mentally disabled as well as corrupt at this point that he didn’t get it when Utah’s leading newspaper editorialized him to step this … Continue reading
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MITCH McCONNELL IS ABUSIVE
His sham appeal to bipartisanship rests on framing the Democrats as errant children.
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REP. ROONEY ADVOCATES POLITICAL PURGE OF OUR JUDICIAL INSTITIONS
Let’s face it, the GOP caucus is not pro-USA. It is pro-GOP and pro-Trump and will cross any line in order to maintain power.
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THE HILL LIES ABOUT THE DOSSIER
calls its claims “unverified” when so much that’s in the dossier has indeed been verified.
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TRUMP DROPS ANY PRETENSE
He tells his cronies at Mar-a-Lago, “You all just got a lot richer.” He fulfilled that pledge he made to them at 21 a year ago! Who said this isn’t a guy who keeps his word? Jake Johnson at Common … Continue reading
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